Workshop on handling sensitivity issues in scientific and medical collections, 17 July 2017

Workshop on handling sensitivity issues in scientific and medical collections, 17 July 2017

The day long workshop was hosted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on Monday 17 July 2017. The event was well attended and a report on the proceedings can be found below along with copies of the morning's case study presentations. The afternoon session consisted of practical group work, where delegates were split into groups to discuss questions surround the issues of sensitivity in archives. The images of the posters along with the summary posters are also available on the link below, via Padlet, the bulletin board software platform. 

 

Workshop programme and reports:

Workshop programme

Report of the proceedings of the sensitivity workshop

 

Case Studies:

Case Study_1_Sensitivity in an era of Open Science

Case Study_2_To the Crick! Moving home after 100 years

Case Study_3_Protecting patients, respecting researchers – case note cataloguing at LHSA

Case Study_4_Pathways to Research

Case Study_5_Laboratories, lawyers and love letters_diverse sensitivities in scientific collections

Case Study_7_ALSPAC Administrative Archives Project

LSHTM_Case Study_8_The Whitehall Study_Sensitive records within a longitudinal health survey

 

Workshop session:

Poster display of group work conducted at sensitivity workshop